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Environment

Tarantula hawks, beneficial beavers and the mollusk option

Human Burnout “The trends in Vital Signs 2007-2008 make it overwhelmingly clear that while Earth itself is almost certainly not dying, many of the planet’s ecological systems are. And the…

Nov 15, 2007
Douglas G. Pearce

Owls

With piercing eyes and haunting cry, so flies the lord of the midnight sky.

Nov 11, 2007
Don Scallen

The Menu is the Message

Feast of Fields connects the links in the local food chain in an annual festival of fun and flavour.

Jun 21, 2007
Tim Shuff

Web Masters

“What would you rather have, spiders sitting in webs where you can see them, or bugs wandering around undetected?” asks Tom Mason.

Jun 21, 2007
Don Scallen

Bullfrog Power

Purchasing Power! Bullfrog Power’s green electricity is hot in Headwaters, but is it worth the premium price?

Mar 22, 2007
Tim Shuff

Return of the Salmon: Restocking the Credit River

They’ve been away for one hundred years, but with the help of their friends, salmon are coming home to the Credit River.

Mar 22, 2007
Jeff Rollings

A Strange Fish Story

More than sixty species of fish make their home in the Credit Valley watershed, but many of them are strangers to all but the most avid observers. Let us introduce you.

Mar 22, 2007
Don Scallen

Hungry maggots, voracious cats & greedy planets

Biodiesel requires little or no modification to vehicle engines or fuelling infrastructure, and its greater lubricity may reduce maintenance costs.

Mar 22, 2007
Douglas G. Pearce

Red-winged blackbirds

Red-winged blackbirds can read cattails as easily as a teen can spot the Golden arches!

Mar 22, 2007
Linda McLaren

A Farm Memoir

There were many good farms around the perimeter of Orangeville that have become subdivisions.

Jun 21, 2005
Isabelle Lightle

The Farm Crisis: Local Solutions

Although food prices have risen in recent years, farmers haven’t received their fair share of the increase.

Jun 21, 2005
Nicola Ross

The Farm Crisis: Global Problem

In just five years, between the 1996 and 2001 censuses, 12 per cent of Ontario farmers left farming.

Jun 21, 2005
Darrin Qualman